Israel Launches New Assault on Northern West Bank
Occupied West Bank (QNN)- Israeli forces have launched a large-scale assault in the northern occupied West Bank, imposing a curfew, blocking roads, and deploying military enforcement.
The Israeli military and Shin Bet security agency announced a major assault in the northern West Bank overnight into Wednesday.
The raid was taking place in several Palestinian towns and villages in the northeast of the West Bank, including Tubas, Tammun, and al-Aqaba.
According to local sources, since early Wednesday morning, the Israeli force raided the Tubas city, southeast of Jenin, with armored vehicles with several attack helicopters surrounded the area.
Several Palestinians in the nearby town of Tammun had been arrested by Israeli forces, sources added.
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-dnt="true" align="center"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Israeli occupation forces abduct and abuse two Palestinians during an incursion into the town of Tammoun in the northern West Bank. <a href="https://t.co/cE4Et4zIg2">pic.twitter.com/cE4Et4zIg2</a></p>— Quds News Network (@QudsNen) <a href="https://twitter.com/QudsNen/status/1993577412869898674?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 26, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Tammun mayor Sameer Bisharat said that Israeli forces raided the village and attack helicopters fired at residents. According to him, more than ten homes were converted into military outposts, and local water lines were cut off. The mayor added that agricultural lands in the area were destroyed and that at least one Palestinian, a prisoner recently released from an Israeli prison, was arrested.
“We will act as we did in Jenin and Tulkarm,” Israeli leaflets distributed in the area read, referring to the wide-scale assault and destruction they caused in the two cities over the past months.
Local sources reported several Palestinian families in the area had been forcefully dispaced from their homes by Israeli forces who turned them into military outposts. They also damaged and vandalized several of the homes it took over.
The governor of Tubas, Ahmed Al-Asaad, told local media that the forces had erected several dirt barricades around the city, and estimated that the Israeli operation would last several days.
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-dnt="true" align="center"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Israeli occupation forces are blocking movement of ambulance vehicles to and from the town of Tammoun in the northern West Bank, amid an ongoing wide-scale military offensive in Tammoun and the nearby town of Tubas. <a href="https://t.co/ROb5DZ5dad">pic.twitter.com/ROb5DZ5dad</a></p>— Quds News Network (@QudsNen) <a href="https://twitter.com/QudsNen/status/1993623618610491897?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 26, 2025</a></blockquote>
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A report published last week by Human Rights Watch (HRW) highlighted the expulsion of 32,000 Palestinians from their homes in just three refugee camps this year. HRW said that the Israeli assaults in the Jenin, Nur Shams, and Tulkarem refugee camps, which began in January, led to the biggest mass displacement of Palestinians in the West Bank since 1967.
The displacements come as Israeli attacks spiral in the West Bank, where more than 1,000 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces and settlers since October 7, 2023, and the start of Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza.
“We are witnessing the total abandonment of Palestinian lives. Israel has already shown it is capable of far greater violence, as we are seeing in the Gaza Strip,” Israeli human rights group B’Tselem’s executive director Yuli Novak said on Friday.
“The situation in the West Bank is deteriorating by the day and will only worsen, because there is no internal or external mechanism to restrain Israel or stop its ongoing policy of ethnic cleansing. The international community must put an end to Israel’s impunity and hold those responsible for crimes against the Palestinian people to account.”
In the case of the Jenin, Nur Shams, and Tulkarem refugee camps, Israel claimed that it displaced residents as part of “Operation Iron Wall”, intended to eradicate resistance to its occupation from within the camps. However, months after Israeli forces entered the camps, residents still remain barred from returning, and bulldozers have destroyed many of their homes.
